How to play The Basement Collection on Mac
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Game summary
The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games released on August 31, 2012. The games were remade with added features and music tracks.
The games in the collection include:
Triachnid (2006), a physics spider simulation game
Coil (2008), an experimental game
Meat Boy (2008), a Super Meat Boy predecessor
Aether (2008), a space adventure game
Grey-Matter (2008), an anti-shooter game
Spewer (2009), a liquid physics platform game
Time Fcuk (2009), a dark puzzle game
Known unlockable content includes:
The Lonely Hermit (2001), a child's story (unlocked by completing Triachnid)
AVGM (2009), an experimental "Abusive Video Game Manipulation" joke mini-game (unlocked by completing Coil)
Meat Boy (map pack) (2008), the Meat Boy game with different maps (unlocked by completing Meat Boy)
The Box, scans of Edmund McMillen's art at 3–5 years-old that were found in a box kept by his grandmother (unlocked by completing Aether)
Thicker Than Water, a 65-page virtual comic about Edmund McMillen's childhood (unlocked by completing Spewer)
The Chest, eight years of drawings from Edmund McMillen's sketchbooks (unlocked by completing Time Fcuk)
Additionally, under steamapps/common/basement/moregames, four other games can be found:
Carious Weltling (2003)
Clubby the seal (2004), a side-scrolling action game
Carious Weltling 2 (2005)
Dumpling (2005)
Most of the content was previously published at Newgrounds:
The Lonely Hermit (2001)
Tri-achnid (2006)
Coil (2008)
Aether (2008)
Meat Boy (2008)
Grey-Matter (2008)
Meat boy (map pack) (2008)
AVGM (2009)
Spewer (2009)
Time Fcuk (2009)
First released: Aug 2012
Play The Basement Collection on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play The Basement Collection on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
The Basement Collection installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install The Basement Collection like you would on any PC.
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